By the nick of their teeth
Posted: February 17, 2018 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: by the skin of my teeth, expressions, humor, in the nick of time, language, malaphor, malaphors, words 1 CommentThis is a nice congruent conflation of “in the nick of time” and “by the skin of their teeth” (just barely). “Skin” and “nick” are both four letter words with a “k” and an “n”. Kudos to Curioussteph for uttering this one unintentionally and sending it in.
Malaphors 
And the funny thing is, when this came up in my feed, it had a vague familiarity to it, as if, Oh, I’ve heard that, too. Not–that’s the one I said.